Rainbow themed activities - The Sensory Sessions

rainbow themed activities

rainbow themed activities
Welcome to our first play printable and we've chosen single
colour toys and rainbows to add some colout to our January.
Single colour toys are amazing for our visual development as
we see the whole toy in the same colour and with nothing
fading in or out it really helps our hand-eye co-ordination and
our motor skills. To increase the challenge for our little ones six
months plus, putting the same colour toy on the same colour
background helps our little ones work on their discrimination
skills by working at what is in the foreground and background.
Have lots of fun creating some rainbow and single colour
inspired play spaces.

Safety first - These activities are suggestions of how to
engage your baby in play. They need to be carried out with
adult supervision and you taking full responsibility for your
baby during play. Please ensure that your little one is
supervised with the toy at all times. Keep your little one in arms
reach and eye sight when they are playing.

This printable has been produced by The Sensory Sessions, it
cannot be copied or replicated without permission

rainbow play spaces

Dig our your single colour or rainbow inspired toys to create a
rainbow play space for your baby. While we create larger
spaces to accomodate lots of little ones you can replicate this
easily at home.

Pop down a base fabric then pop on a fabric which is a
different texture and colour. Dig out any single colour toys,
fabrics, music toys, books or props that you have to create an
interesting multi texture playspace. We'd love to see what you
create!

rainbow music toys

Colourful music toys are really engaging for our little ones. The
toys that you are able see through too especially so and even
our tinest babies can enjoy watching the beads or bubbles
move around in a rainmaker, shaker or a sensory bottle.

We've posted some pictures of some of our favourite music
toys that would compliment a lovely rainbow theme. It is really
easy to create your own sensory bottle like ours above by
taking an empty and dry bottle and filling it with beads, water
beads, lentils, rice and peas or colourful paper.

No mess painting

No mess painting is an amazing way to increase the textures
into play without the risk of paint going near a mouth. It is an
amazing tummy time activity and great for taping down to high
chair tables to give our sitting babies an opportunity to explore
too.

There are a couple of printable rainbow designs included in
this printable that you can print on paper or cardboard (use
very little paint if it is on paper)

No mess painting
Pop your printed design in a ziplock bag and squeeze small
amount of paint onto the design. Secure the bag and tape
down if necessary to ensure that the paint stays securely away
from your baby. Ikea bags are amazing as they have double
seals and they are a bit thicker if you have them to hand.

Pop the bag down on a safe surface and encourage your little
one to hold, touch and move the paint around, let them explore
the different texture in their hands. For our youngest ones
tummy time is an amazing way to do this and for our older
ones sitting to paint, tummy time or taping the bag to their high
chair works well.

Once the design is covered in paint, carefully cut the bag down
the sides and remove the painting, pop it on some paper and
leave out to dry. Baby's first piece of artwork!

For our older babies and our toddlers, you can make it a
messier activity by finger painting, hand painting and using
brushes or cotton pads to transfer the paint (amazing for
introducing extra textures)

It is a great activity to get siblings involved with too!

ribbon two texture toy

Two texture toys are amazing for our little ones, they are great
to hold and a great way to ensure that our babys are
experiencing two textures at the same time. Ribbon toys are
amazing and you can buy ready made ones or make your own
using smooth wooden rings (wooden curtain rings with metal
screw removed, wooden teething rings or napkin rings) and
ribbons looped on if you are creative. You can also use a link
(we love bright starts lot of links) and loop a chiffon on.

When you are playing with your ribbon toy, try and get your
little one to track, to shake, practice their hand-eye co-
ordination, balance and to feel the ribbons in one hand and the
hoop in the other. Check out our full rainbow ribbon printable in
the members club. Never leave them unattended with a ribbon
toy.

rainbow ball pool

Rainbow ball pools are a great way of introducing texture,
visual development, with the balls each being single colour,
and an amazing opportunity to work on their motor skills. Our
favourite ball pools are pop up ones, that easily pack away
and inflatable ones which can double as a little texture tub or
paddling pool.

When popping the balls in make sure that you have just one
layer of balls in the ball pool so your baby is still getting lots of
information from the floor about where their body's are in
space. Too many balls can be overwhelming and as your little
one is 'suspended' they are getting confusing signals from
their muscles and joints about where their body is in space
which can be difficult for them to manage. This is suitable for
lying, tummy time and sitting and it is also a great opportunity
to add additional textures into the pool.